About Jack

Jack Carlson is a designer, author, archaeologist, and former coxswain on the U.S. rowing team. He is the founder of the brand Rowing Blazers and has led the revival of three heritage brands: Warm & Wonderful, Arthur Ashe, and Gyles & George. He created Blazer Group as a parent organization for these four brands and serves as creative director across the group.

As a designer, Jack has collaborated with a wide range of other brands, including Gucci, Target, Seiko, Barbour, Umbro, FILA, Sperry, Noah, Tudor, J. Press, La Martina, Spalding, Globe-Trotter, Harry’s Bar, Lands’ End, Zodiac, Eric Emanuel, Babar, Hunter, Tracksmith, New Era, ’47, J. Crew, SEGA, LeSportsac, Puma Hoops, K-Swiss, Beams Plus, Ralph Lauren, The Grateful Dead, and the NBA. His approach combines obsessive historical research with a slightly subversive take on “the classics.”

Jack has received industry praise for his design work across apparel, watches, footwear, luggage, and accessories, and he and his work have been featured in Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, Monocle, Antiquity, The New England Classical Journal, Bloomberg, Hypebeast, and GQ.

A three-time member of the U.S. national rowing team, Jack won a bronze medal at the World Championships in 2015 and won both the Head of the Charles and Henley Royal Regatta in 2013. In 2023, he skied to the South Pole with his seventy-two-year-old father.

Jack earned a doctorate in archaeology at Oxford and an undergraduate degree at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown. He worked as a field archaeologist in Italy and has written on a wide variety of topics. Jack is a Fellow of The Explorers Club, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Numismatic Society; and a Life Member of the Archaeological Institute of America, Oxford University Boat Club, and the I.B.F. at Harry’s Bar in Paris. Jack also serves on the board of Row New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young people through the sport of rowing, regardless of background or ability.